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Rainbow Boston 1981
Rainbow’s Boston 1981 is being released by Cleopatra Records — the same label that brought you the three 1979 Rainbow live releases. The show was broadcast on the radio at the time and was subsequently widely bootlegged. The CD appears to be already available from the label store, with a gatefold double LP on colour vinyl promised to be in the works. Amazon lists CD availability dates at May 13 for the US, May 20 for UK, and May 27 for Germany.
Track listing:
- Spotlight Kid
- Love’s No Friend
- I Surrender
- Man On The Silver Mountain
- Catch The Rainbow
- Can’t Happen Here
- Lost In Hollywood
- Difficult To Cure
- Long Live Rock N’ Roll
- Smoke On The Water
Thanks to Anthony for the heads up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Is the boot any good??
April 19th, 2016 at 19:09I have this cd it is awesome!
April 19th, 2016 at 20:37Entire concert on one disc?
April 19th, 2016 at 20:58Another immaculate, pristine recording no doubt!…. and only 35 years late. Heaven’s to Betsy, I didn’t sound the slightest bit sarcastic there for a moment did I?. Hmmmm. Well, enjoy it anyway. Ahhh Boston, now there’s another great rock band!.
April 19th, 2016 at 21:13Is this the same show that broadcast on King Biscuit and was a split with Pat Travers? I taped that one off the radio when it aired, and being a split broadcast there was only four Rainbow songs and then Pat Travers came on
April 19th, 2016 at 21:32I did the same!
April 19th, 2016 at 22:52http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/rainbow-london-gb-07-08-81-a-223282.html
April 19th, 2016 at 22:53http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/rainbow-1981-05-07-boston-ma-pre-fm-flac-150790.html
April 19th, 2016 at 22:55The reception on the radio wasn’t great, so the quality isn’t there, but it was great to go back and listen to.
April 19th, 2016 at 23:25Is Graham Bonnett on vocal or Show Little Turner??
April 20th, 2016 at 00:45Poor sound quality!!!
April 20th, 2016 at 05:40I have heard this recording and its fantastic…yes indeed 35 years much too late
April 20th, 2016 at 06:53This bootleg is as old as the hills, bootleged as “Ultimate Surrender” or “More Coloured Rainbow”.
April 21st, 2016 at 13:47Soundquality is in my opinion is very good.
A must have for all Rainbow-fans.
I’ve got the entire two disc show right from the WBCN master. king Biscuit totally screwed up the mix when they put it out. It kind of reminds me of the difference between the original Come Taste The Band and the Caveman remaster. Actually, the boot is available if you can find it, its called ‘Real Boston Complete’.
April 23rd, 2016 at 06:49This was the show I met Ritchie, and my ex-wife and myself became Ritchie’s guests backstage for the entire show. When I was first introduced to Ritchie, his first words to me were, “on your knees in my presence”, to which I did not obey, but smiled widely at meeting my idol and shook his hand. He demanded everyone backstage leave just prior to Rainbow taking the stage, and said pointing to us, “these two stay”. Throughout the set, we had brief conversations as he came off-stage at different points during the show. Naturally, I heard all the stories of how nasty and such he could be, but he was wonderful and very inviting to us. That was one of the most special nights in my life, and lives on in my memory all these years later.
April 24th, 2016 at 15:47The sound quality is not bad. Jesus Christ. Folks need some objectivity. This is NOT the full concert. It’s all the songs, but banter/solos cut out to fit on one disc.
This is an UNedited version of this show:
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/rainbow-1981-05-07-boston-ma-pre-fm-flac-150790.html
If you can find this in lossless FLAC it’s well worth it. If you want the full show taken from the pre-FM source, this is the way to go. But I find the single CD release just fine for what it is.
And just to reiterate, the sound quality is outstanding on both the official “truncated” release and the pre-FM “bootleg,” if you will.
Happy (or not) listening! 😉
~TM
May 19th, 2016 at 13:03Reason this is available in awesome quality now is because Wolfgang’s Vaults acquired KBFH archives when KB went bust and have legally uploaded the full show from the original master tapes for streaming on their subscription site concertvault.com. It used to be free to stream but now you’ll need to buy a subscription to hear it, but it’s well worth it; hundreds of exclusive live recordings available for legal streaming.
August 6th, 2016 at 12:47superb mix for a good concert with an excellent Turner ,a tyred Blackmore and a band in a perfect shape.it’s a shame that this concert is almost 20 minutes shorter than the original,and it’s another shame that this cd is is mastered from the Wolgang’s Vault direct streaming,a streaming with low bitrate (96kb/s) as can you hear during all the concert,including a lot of clicks (similar to the ones from the old windows edition during the browsing thru the folders) and high frequencies with “pixeled” hiss
January 31st, 2017 at 16:01those strange noises,are added by Wolfgangs Vault just to avoid unauthorized download or unauthorized performances
January 31st, 2017 at 16:03The source is the streaming service mentioned above, not true quality remaster, the frequency response is cut off and indicated a low bitrate lossy source.
April 6th, 2020 at 20:18